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" A computation is a process that obeys finitely describable rules. "
Process
Computation
Rules
" Advice to beginning SF writers? Write a lot, finish what you write, and when it's done, keep sending it out for quite awhile. "
Advice
Done
Beginning
" All living things are gnarly, in that they inevitably do things that are much more complex than one might have expected. "
Complex
Things
Living
" At present, however, I don't think the Net is a very good medium for books, books should really be inexpensive lightweight paperbacks you can bang around. "
Net
Good
Present
" But how does it feel to plug into a system that's say, a million times as smart as a person. "
Smart
System
How
" Computations are everywhere, once you begin to look at things in a certain way. "
Things
Way
Look
" Electronic distribution is more of a fall-back strategy for putting out a book that isn't deemed profitable enough to print. You hardly make any money publishing an electronic book. "
You
Book
Enough
" If all else fails, there's always print or web zines. "
Always
Fails
Print
" If we suppose that many natural phenomena are in effect computations, the study of computer science can tell us about the kinds of natural phenomena that can occur. "
Study
Computer Science
Tell
" If you think of your life as a kind of computation, it's quite abundantly clear that there's not going to be a final answer and there won't be anything particularly wonderful about having the computation halt! "
You
Wonderful
Going
" I like a book better if I can't predict what's going to happen. "
Better
Predict
Like
" I like to do things that are surprising and different. "
Surprising
Different
Things
" In any case, A New Kind of Science is a wonderful book, and I'm still absorbing its teachings. "
Wonderful
Science
Any
" I think dry nanotechnology is probably a dead-end. "
Dry
I Think
Nanotechnology
" It's soothing to realize that my mind's processes are inherently uncontrollable. "
Realize
Soothing
Mind
" It's tedious to watch something very obvious being worked out, like a movie that's not particularly good and after about half an hour you know how it's going to end. "
Like
You
End
" Lately I've been working to convince myself that everything is a computation. "
Everything
Myself
Working
" Now, being a science fiction writer, when I see a natural principle, I wonder if it could fail. "
See
Wonder
Now
" One of the nice things about science fiction is that it lets us carry out thought experiments. "
Science
Nice
Science Fiction
" Science fiction writers put characters into a world with arbitrary rules and work out what happens. "
Happens
Rules
Science
" Selling a book or story has never become absolutely automatic for me. "
Book
Become
Me
" Some ideas you have to chew on, then roll them around a lot, play with them before you can turn them into funky science fiction. "
Ideas
You
Turn
" The hard fact is that not everyone does get published. "
Hard
Get
Fact
" Traditional science is all about finding shortcuts. "
Science
Shortcuts
About
" Unfortunately our nation, nay, our world, is run by evil morons. "
Our
Nation
Morons
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